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(d Westminster, 3 May 1459-22 May 1460). English composer. A member of the London Guild of Parish Clerks, he was towards the end of his life verger at St Stephen's, Westminster. He may have been the John Boddenham born in Oxford in 1422 and a scholar and chorister of Winchester College and later a scholar and fellow of New College, Oxford. His two mass cycles are unusually free in form, one of them parodying Binchois ballade Dueil angoisseux, and his three motets are intricate pieces of great rhythmical complexity. Eight songs widely distributed in MS sources, often with alternative texts in different languages, are probably his, though some are also ascribed to other composers (e.g. the song O rosa bella, also ascribed to Dunstable). The dissemination of his music suggests he was a composer of stature. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
Mi Verry Joy
Le chant de l'échiquier
The Passion of Reason
Of Arms and a Woman: Late Medieval Wind Music
Razzi, G.: O Vergin Santa Non M'Abbandonare / Gardano, A.: Stava A Pie De La Croce (Praise the Holy Virgin) (Ensemble Daedalus)
O tempo bono: Music at the Aragonese Court of Naples
Melodious Melancholye (The Sweet Sounds of Medival England)
O Rosa Bella
The Castle of Fair Welcome: Courtly songs of the later fifteenth century
Le Chansonnier Cordiforme
The Castle of Fair Welcome: Courtly Songs of the Later 15th Century
The Lily & the Rose: Adoration of the Virgin – Late Medieval English Music